Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boss. Seen off the floor, however, convention delegates look just like so many everyday citizens assembled to compare calmly, discuss intelligently and express independently their individual opinions as to who should be President of the U. S. Next week, Kansas Citizens may expect to see George Eastman, the grey, lean, bespectacled Kodak man, moving about the town. He is a delegate-at-large from New York. Leading the New York delegation is distinguished-looking Charles Dewey Hilles who was President Taft's secretary and later a big insurance man who felt "too poor" to accept proffered Ambassadorships. Mr. Hilles...
...Mellon theories of economics and government are neither original in conception nor brilliant in exposition, yet there is a trait of the Mellon mentality which reflects again that fineness of breeding which people have sensed in the lean, grey, little patrician of the Treasury Department. It is in the grand manner intellectually not to worry, not to cross bridges before rivers are reached. This Andrew Mellon never does. To his ability to put off until tomorrow that which is not today's concern, his intimates attribute his unimpaired vigor at an age when most of his business contemporaries...
...cynosure, of course, was Pennsylvania's lean, grey primate, Andrew William Mellon. For months people had been saying that the fate of Hooverism lay in the hollow of the delicately deliberate hand which runs the Treasury Department. A few forecasters, notably Col. Theodore Roosevelt, had predicted that if the anti-Administration forces beat Hoover in Indiana, the Administration's cautious senior lieutenant (Mellon) would make some gesture friendly to the industrious junior lieutenant (Hoover) who wants to carry on the Administration's work...
...grown immensely in favor during recent years. Perhaps its most conspicuous devotee is the Theatre Guild of New York, with a long record of successful revivals, and presentations of important new plays. But while New York lias sat at a feast of dramatic good things, Boston has had lean fare. The Repertory Theater here is but a shade of what it might have been. Henry Jewett's company struggled valiantly but some spark of public interest or box office magnetism was lacking, and so Boston's theaters must depend consistently on what New York may send them. The times...
Gentlemen in the throes of divisionals have been known to lose weight. So have lovers, who are supposed to dream more or less constantly about their beloved ones. But the idea of taking thought for the sole purpose of reducing weight is new. Caesar distrusted the lean man, so Shakespeare tells us, and thought him fit only for "treason, stratagems and spoils". But now he is raised in his fellow-man's estimation, and instead of a dagger in his belt he will more probably have a Phi Beta Kappa charm on his watch chain...